Re: Compiling memtest from sources on cygwin

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>]

alexeik@nordlines.ru wrote:
> Thank you for prompt response.  I have just installed my ancient copy of 
> Fedora and there 'make all' of memtest works OK. I also found 
> '.previous' in 'info as' (on cygwin):
>
> > `.previous'
> > ===========
> >
> >    This is one of the ELF section stack manipulation directives.  The
> > others are `.section' (*note Section::), `.subsection' (*note
> > SubSection::), `.pushsection' (*note PushSection::), and `.popsection'
> > (*note PopSection::).

ELF is a different binary format.


> >    This directive swaps the current section (and subsection) with most
> > recently referenced section (and subsection) prior to this one.
> > Multiple `.previous' directives in a row will flip between two sections
> > (and their subsections).
> >
> >    In terms of the section stack, this directive swaps the current
> > section with the top section on the section stack.
>
>
> And since cygwin works under Windows I suspect, that cygwin people setup 
> the 'as' program to support windows loader. Now I am thinking -- should 
> I go to linux, or stay with cygwin. Actually I need to write a small 
> program, which works on bare metall w/o any o/s.

Windows binary format differs from ELF.  You need to port the program.


Gerrit
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